I'm always on the look-out for moments when the media and politicians cross the line into Chris Morris territory.

During yesterday's saturation news coverage of the resignation of Hazel Blears, her parliamentary private secretary, Robert Flello, came out with a line that could have been drawn straight from the comedian's news parody shows The Day Today and Brass Eye:

She's got the Labour party running through her veins. That's not blood; that's the Labour party.